One of the funniest moments I ever heard on the radio was on 606 after Scotland’s 1-1 draw against the tiny Faroe Islands several years back. There had been lots of disgust and anger, and one caller continued the tone, ranting about how the man[…]

I think this song, by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, might be the best song ever written. It’s a beautiful melody, given superb life by producer Luther Dixon’s luscious string arrangement (over a cod-Latin beat which I like less, but Leibe[…]

There are certainly some hopeless villains in some of the issues of Steve Ditko’s spell on Spider-Man, but the importance of a creative force credited only with the art really shows when John Romita joins writer Stan Lee on the title. The first[…]

A work meeting today gave me the opportunity to investigate for free the rarefied world of PREMIUM CHOCOLATE. Green and Blacks? Bendicks? Strictly middlebrow. Try Michel Cluizel, whose 1er Premier Crus de Plantations bars go for £3.50 per 100g. Not […]

Just in time for Food Science Day, I come across a new DS ‘eat-em-up’ entitled Cooking Mama! In this game you can “create 76 different, real world dishes from fried eggs to cabbage meat rolls! The stylus is your master kitchen tool[…]

If it had actually been left on an Autobahn in 1974.

Leaving this god-forsaken piece of vinyl on the Autobahn seems like a terrific idea to me, as was flyering all the record shops in the mid-eighties for the CD re-release with a much more appropria[…]

(held over from last year in the name of all that is holy promoting future enquiry)
AIM: To explore the viability of egg polycookery
APPARATUS: Many eggs, hot oil, wooden spoon, boiling saucepan, non-stick frying pan, wok. (more…)[…]

sugar and spice – Cryan shames
Step back in time – Kylie
Your Honor – Regina Spektor
Noyfriend – Shimura Curves
Movin Day – Holy Modal Roundels (more…)[…]

Never accuse over-priced stationer Paperchase of tardiness – the very second the season flipped over from the death-throes of Summer to crispy fresh Autumn, the window display in the Tottenham Court Road branch had an instant revamp. Any schoo[…]

Just started reading Dominic Sandbrook’s White Heat – as with the previous volume (a third is planned on the 1970s, hurrah), the anecdotes and local colour are easily as interesting as the analysis.
– Mary Whitehouse: ‘she esp[…]